Lockheed Martin is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Lockheed Company, which was originally incorporated on December 19 1912, in San Francisco, California. “It took the Lockheed brothers two years of hard work to get their first plane airborne, and they faced innumerable technical and operational challenges along the way,” said Bob Stevens,
The Williams Foundation think tank has questioned the government’s decision to further delay a decision on Australia’s air combat capability transition plan and to submit an LOR to the US government for 24 more Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornets. In a December 17 release, the foundation laid out the four options which government considered before announcing
The US Air Force has declared its 33rd Fighter Wing at Eglin AFB is now ‘ready for training’ on the F-35A Lightning II, following the successful completion of a 65 day operational utility evaluation (OUE) in November. Air Education and Training Command (AETC) commander, Gen Edward Rice Jr said: “The preliminary results provided by the
The RAAF’s first C-27J Spartan tactical transport has entered final assembly at Alenia Aermacchi’s Turin plant. The fuselage for the future A34-001 was manufactured at Alenia Aermacchi’s Capodichino, Naples site before being transported to Turin via road and sea freight for final assembly. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a
by Kristian Hollins In the haze of further indecision by government yesterday, a few key points were lost in the ether which might give an indication of the way government is progressively thinking. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login.
Defence Minister Stephen Smith and Defence Materiel Minister Jason Clare have announced that the Project AIR 5077 Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) Wedgetail has been removed from the government’s Projects of Concern list. The project was first approved in 2000 with a budget of $3.8 billion (in today’s dollars) to procure six 737-700BBJ aircraft